Under a measure the House sent to Gov. Quinn Thursday night – the evening members were supposed to consider a cost-saving pension bill – people with disabilities could use miniature horses as service animals in public places, much like guide dogs are used.

That's what's happening in our neighboring state — and I do mean neighboring...

Nice leadership under a Democratic governor. But don't worry, Wisconsin. We might get a Democratic governor too, very soon. Just a couple weeks. There's a 2.7% chance.

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Have you noticed that Obama's chance of winning has been slowly decreasing over the last few weeks, What do you think of that? Especially in the light of financial theory telling us that the prices should be Martingales?

As a participant in the Wisconsin Retirement System, this is why I support Walker's reforms. Illinois is Exhibit A of what happens when you ignore economic reality. In the end, their pensioners are likely to end up with pennies on the dollar. You can not get blood out of a turnip.

Getting stymied is the name of the game when Unions are boss. They are the eternal parasite that kills its host.

Poor Illinois. That legislator losing it on U-tube was sad to watch. He basicly said without Chicago Votes electing the Speaker, the state is eternally stymied by total corruption. What a perfect place for the Kenyan imposter to learn politics.

@Leo Yeah, when we first started looking Obama's reelection, Walker's win, and Supreme Court striking the individual mandate were all equally likely, I think at 61%. Since then Walker's gone way up and Obama's gone down. It was a funny divergence.

It was quite funny and it seemed like so many commentators were and still are, talking about how these things are so related. Watching intrade seems to make me far more skeptical about their pronouncements. Also I wouldn't take the percentage chances at face value because intrade isn't paying any interest on the contracts so the prices will be slightly distorted.

Horses can be housetrained. The ADA allows miniature horses and dogs to be considered as service animals. Used to allow just about everything but people were claiming cats, monkeys, etc. as service animals and there was no way to disprove the claims under the ADA. So it was amended.

I wonder why the state decided to pass a law allowing miniature horses? They're already allowed under the ADA, which is federal law. Too lazy to research that right now though.

Louisiana's Republican Gov. Jindal, and the GOP-controlled House and Senate did not pass most of his proposed pension changes (call things "reform" when they've been in action, and the results can be assessed; otherwise, "reform" is just propaganda). This is a conservative, right-to-work state, and governors here have enormous influence over the legislature. But changes to pension systems are more complex than campaign slogans and bumperstickers can account for. Employee pensions are part of employees' contracts with their employers. Jindal's proposals targeted some state workers and not others, and some details were judged to be arbitrary. There will be changes, but I'm glad to see that our lawmakers are demanding a better effort.

Sometimes you just have to admit Democracy and rooms full of lawyers representing their political donors in certain countries or States have failed. Failed so badly it is often time for a junta to take over at the point of a bayonet and straighten things out. Heads on spikes, burning the failed Constitutions of nations that screwed up badly - optional.

In Re Chickadee. I don't know if I can find a copy of this esteemed opinion, which addressed the question of whether an Indian who killed his pony, which had broken its leg, thereby violated the Small Birds Act. Among other things, the court found that the "two leg" part of the definition of a bird was a minimum requirement. The court also determined that since the Indian had been riding his pony sitting on a feather pillow, that the animal met the "covered with feathers" portion of the definition. Finally, as I recall, the court found that "Small" modified "Act" and not "Birds."I don't see this opinion on the internet, but scholarly law professors may have it at their fingertips.